August

Summer seems to be speeding away, the weeks turning over faster and faster. The story in the allotment is of harvesting: the broad beans are long gone, some in the freezer, and now replaced by dwarf French beans, the modest amount of early potatoes are superseded by better yields of maincrop. Tasty little turnips and gorgeous beetroot for salad, swiss chard for mixing into pasta dishes and curries. Plus some rather oddly-shaped carrots (but at least I can grow carrots!) The onions did much better than I thought, once the rain came they stopped bolting and started filling out again.
Talking of rain though... it's very dry. Forecast heavy rain today which didn't happen, which in one sense was good as I was out doing good works with the Green Power Team but we do need it...